Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps

The concept of “cultural keystone species” (CKS) combines ecological and socioeconomic aspects and has a great potential for improving the overall success of conservation and restoration of ecosystems. In our study, we combined an ecological analysis of traditional medicinal plant species with an ex...

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Main Authors: Joshua Petelka, Gianmaria Bonari, Ina Säumel, Barbara Plagg, Stefan Zerbe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2022-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art14